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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: PECR COMPLAINTS

Pursuant to the general right of access to information contained within the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I request the following information from the Information Commissioner's Office.

(1) In the period 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014, please provide the number of complaints the ICO has received in connection with alleged breaches of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 by the following organisations:

(a) The Labour Party
(b) The Scottish Labour Party
(c) Wales Labour Party
(d)The Conservative Party
(e) The Scottish Conservative Party
(f) Liberal Democrats
(g) United Kingdom Independence Party
(h) Scottish National Party
(i) Green Party
(j) Scottish Green Party

(2) In the period 1 October 2014 to 31 December 2014, please provide the number of complaints the ICO has received in connection with alleged breaches of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 by the following organisations:

(a) Tesco Plc
(b) Tesco Personal Finance PLC (trades as Tesco Bank)
(c) Tesco Stores Ltd
(d) Tesco Mobile Ltd
(e) Asda Stores Ltd
(f) Asda Financial Services Ltd
(g) J Sainsbury Plc
(h) Sainsbury's Bank Plc
(i) Aimia Coalition Loyalty UK Ltd (trades as Nectar)

Should the Commissioner consider that to comply with the request would exceed the appropriate limit, then please restrict the request to part (1) only.

I look forward to receiving your substantive reply.

Yours faithfully,
Alistair P Sloan

AccessICOinformation, Information Commissioner's Office

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10th February 2015

 

Case Reference Number IRQ0568593

 

Dear Mr Sloan

Thank you for your correspondence of 22 January 2015 which we handled
in-line with your right to know under section 1 (1) of the Freedom of
Information Act.

On 22 January 2015 you requested the following information:
 
“Pursuant to the general right of access to information contained within
the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I request the following information
from the Information Commissioner's Office.
 
(1) In the period 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014, please provide the
number of complaints the ICO has received in connection with alleged
breaches of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive)
Regulations 2003 by the following organisations:
 
(a) The Labour Party
(b) The Scottish Labour Party
(c) Wales Labour Party
(d)The Conservative Party
(e) The Scottish Conservative Party
(f) Liberal Democrats
(g) United Kingdom Independence Party
(h) Scottish National Party
(i) Green Party
(j) Scottish Green Party
 
(2) In the period 1 October 2014 to 31 December 2014, please provide the
number of complaints the ICO has received in connection with alleged
breaches of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive)
Regulations 2003 by the following organisations:
 
(a) Tesco Plc
(b) Tesco Personal Finance PLC (trades as Tesco Bank)
(c) Tesco Stores Ltd
(d) Tesco Mobile Ltd
(e) Asda Stores Ltd
(f) Asda Financial Services Ltd
(g) J Sainsbury Plc
(h) Sainsbury's Bank Plc
(i) Aimia Coalition Loyalty UK Ltd (trades as Nectar) “
 
 
 
Response to request
 
In response , please find attached the requested information. I hope you
find it of assistance.
 
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at the address below or e-mail [1][ICO request email].

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A copy of our review procedure is available [2]here
 
 
Yours sincerely

Iman Elmehdawy
Lead Information Access Officer

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Alistair P Sloan left an annotation ()

It's not all that easy to open the file attached by the ICO, so here is the Information Contained:

Labour Party
Jan 14 = 0; Feb 14 = 0; Mar 14 = 1; Apr 14 = 0; May 14 = 2; Jun 14 = 2; Jul 14 = 1; Aug 14 = 1; Sept 14 = 3; Oct 14 = 3; Nov 14 = 2; Dec 14 = 1

Scottish Labour
None at any time during 2014

Welsh Labour Party
Only one which was in August 2014

Conservative Party
Jan 14 = 0; Feb 14 =- 0; Mar 14 = 0; Apr 14 = 0; May 14 = 2; Jun 14 = 0; Jul 14 = 2; Aug 14 = 2; Sept 14 = 2; Oct 14 = 1; Nov 14 = 3; Dec 14 = 1

Scottish Conservatives
None at any time during 2014

Liberal Democrats
Jan 14 = 0; Feb 14 = 1; Mar 14 = 2; Apr 14 = 0; May 14 = 0; Jun 14 = 0; Jul 14 = 0; Aug 14 = 0; Sept 14 = 1; Oct 14 = 2; Nov 14 = 1; Dec 14 = 3

UKIP
Jan 14 = 0; Feb 14 = 0; Mar 14 = 0; Apr 14 = 1; May 14 = 0; Jun 14 = 0; Jul 14 = 0; Aug 14 = 0; Sept 14 = 0; Oct 14 = 1; Nov 14 = 2; Dec 14 = 2

Scottish National Party
Only 3 complaints all of which were in September 2014.

Green Party
One complaint which was in April 2014

Scottish Green Party
No complaints

Tesco PLC
No complaints

Tesco Bank
2 in October and 1 in November

Tesco Stores
No complaints

Tesco Mobile
No Complaints

Asda
No complaints

Asda Finance
No complaints

J Sainsbury's Plc
1 complaint in October 2014

Nectar
No complaints

Alistair P Sloan left an annotation ()

I have made a follow-up request to this concerning the Complaints received in respect of the political parties against which the Commissioner received complaints. That request can be found at: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...